{"id":245027,"date":"2026-10-07T21:33:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T02:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/hackers-hijack-google-domains-after-breaching-cctld-registries"},"modified":"2026-10-07T21:33:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T02:33:22","slug":"hackers-hijack-google-domains-after-breaching-cctld-registries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/hackers-hijack-google-domains-after-breaching-cctld-registries","title":{"rendered":"Hackers hijack Google domains after breaching ccTLD registries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hackers-hijack-google-domains-after-breaching-cctld-registries2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hackers obtained unauthorized HTTPS certificates for several Google domains and hijacked domains in the country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) for Ghana, American Samoa, and Sierra Leone after compromising third-party operators and modifying authoritative DNS records.<\/p>\n<p>Google underlines that the attacks affected domains of other organizations in the. GH,.SL, and. AS ccTLDs but \u201cdid not involve a compromise of Google\u2019s systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By gaining access to the domain name system (DNS) records, a threat actor can request an HTTPS certificate from a Certificate Authority (CA) for a domain they don\u2019t own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers obtained unauthorized HTTPS certificates for several Google domains and hijacked domains in the country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) for Ghana, American Samoa, and Sierra Leone after compromising third-party operators and modifying authoritative DNS records. Google underlines that the attacks affected domains of other organizations in the. GH,.SL, and. AS ccTLDs but \u201cdid not involve a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}